A notable landmark, St. John's Catholic Parsonage and School, was built in 1898, with neighborhood construction taking place throughout the thirty-year period from 1892 to 1922.

Old Oaks became a historic district in 1986 after a group of neighbors petitioned the city for the designation.

Today, Old Oaks is the most intact of Columbus's turn-of-the-century streetcar era neighborhoods that shows the homes of the middle and upper classes.

The Old Oaks Historic District consists of 346 households with a total population of 1061 residents.

The racial make-up of this neighborhood based on 2020 US Census results was 64% African American, 28.3% Caucasian, 3% another ethnicity, and 4.7% reported being multi-racial.